Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 161]

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FREE DISPENSARY EQUIPMENT

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The college building is a six-story structure on the corner of two wide streets, with an open space around it on all sides. It is heated by steam and provided with all modern conveniences. It contains three well-lighted and wellventilated amphitheaters, the smallest of which seats two hundred students. In these amphitheaters the usual lectures are given. Adjacent to the college building on the west is the laboratory building. The laboratories contained therein are among the largest and most complete possessed by any medical college in the United States. They occupy four floors, three of them 25x100 feet each, and one 25x56 feet. Each will accommodate one hundred and twenty students at a time. They are provided with desks and lockers for students' use, and are well adapted to the work for which they are severally intended. Adjoining the laboratories are preparation rooms for the use of demonstrators and professors. There is a bone room, to which students have free access for the study of osteology. In the department of pathology the collections furnish ample material for the macroscopical as well as the microscopical study of diseased tissues. The store rooms are connected with all the laboratories by means of an elevator. The School has for the use of students over 130 modern microscopes of late continental and American patterns, a sufficient number of which are equipped with oil emersion lenses. There are also an ample number of microtomes for students' use, besides microtomes of special construction for particular kinds of work, electric projection apparatus of latest design, and all other apparatus in any way necessary for students' work or for the illustration of lectures. FREE DISPENSARY The dispensary occupies the first floor and a portion of the second floor of the main building. Connected with the reception room are fourteen clinic rooms for the accom-